Looking for literature about pre-history, the role of muscle and power.
The role of man-woman in relationship to muscle of physcial strength. Or maybe strength mattered less than expected?
Many thanks in advance.
Look into what I said before, Peter, at about 2300 BCE at about the time of Sargon the Great (or slightly after) there came a greater emphasis on masculinity which doesn't seem evident before. With portraits of Narin Sin you can see it clearly, muscular bodies. The Hittite sculptures express the same. Into the Middle-Bronze Age there appears to have been a diminishing of female rights in Mesopotamian culture, and an emphasis on war-on the warrior. By the Iron Age it is expressed in violent male gods. So a view of masculinity as aggressive, violent and physically strong.
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